Famous Vegas PI Firm Sued Over Lawyer’s Alleged Drunken Assault at Golf Outing
A Las Vegas personal injury lawyer golfing with his law firm colleagues at a charity event is accused in a lawsuit of assaulting a man playing in a foursome that included a legal opponent.
The suit claims associate Benjamin Lund threw a punch in his official capacity as a lawyer for the well-known law firm Glen Lerner & Associates and seeks to hold the law firm liable, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The plaintiff, Brian Walsh, says the punch fractured a bone in his face, caused “apparent nerve damage” and left him with at least $28,000 in medical bills.
Walsh was playing in a foursome at the June fundraiser with the owner of a go-kart business, Pole Position Raceway, a defendant in a personal injury suit filed by the Lerner firm. The suit alleges the dispute began after a Lerner lawyer began to quiz a woman in a Pole Position hospitality tent about the lawsuit. During the questioning, “some or all of the Lerner attorneys” that had golfed in a foursome made suggestive comments, the suit alleges.
The suit says the owner of Pole Position later loudly chastised Lund, resulting in a confrontation in which a drunken Lund invited Walsh to hit him. Walsh refused, the suit alleges, so Lund belly bumped Walsh and delivered a sucker punch.
